Thursday, February 11, 2010

What are the ways fungi obtain food with the way humans do?

both humans and fungi are heterothrosphs. compare the way fungi obtain food with the way humans do??What are the ways fungi obtain food with the way humans do?
First understand what it means to be a heterotroph (hetero=others, troph=eat [loose translation]). Plants are phototrophs, they get their energy from light. There are types of bacteria that can generate their own sustinance from inorganic molecules, thus are called chemotrophs. Fungi and humans have to digest organic molecules (i.e. carbon-containing molecules), usually in the form of pre-existing phototrophs and chemotrophs.

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